The Alaska Reference Database originated as the standalone Alaska Fire Effects Reference Database, a ProCite reference database maintained by former BLM-Alaska Fire Service Fire Ecologist Randi Jandt. It was expanded under a Joint Fire Science Program grant for the FIREHouse project (The Northwest and Alaska Fire Research Clearinghouse). It is now maintained by the Alaska Fire Science Consortium and FRAMES, and is hosted through the FRAMES Resource Catalog. The database provides a listing of fire research publications relevant to Alaska and a venue for sharing unpublished agency reports and works in progress that are not normally found in the published literature.
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Loeffler, Brandt, Morgan, Jones
This annotated bibliography is a synthesis of information products available to land managers in the western United States regarding economic and financial aspects of forestry-based woody biomass removal, a component of fire hazard and/or fuel reduction treatments. This…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Johansen
[no description entered]
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Agee
Evaluations of fire management programs have been based primarily on ecological criteria rather than on cost-effectiveness. Determining cost-effectiveness poses several problems: current budgeting practices do not encourage such evaluations, assessment of the net value changes…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Van Wagner
[no description entered]
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Ingalsbee
From the text (p. 34) ... 'Given the fact that climate change will cause many wildfires to burn larger and longer, the real issue in the near future will not be cost reduction or even cost containment, but rather, cost management. Expenditures may still remain high as the amount…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Gautam, Pulkki, Shahi, Leitch
Wildfire burnt forest biomass can be salvaged as feedstock for bioenergy power generating stations. Despite availability of such forest biomass in northwestern Ontario, its procurement has generally been considered uneconomic and no studies have looked into the cost of…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Davies, Kareiva, Armsworth
The full or partial acquisition of land remains a predominant focus of terrestrial conservation strategies. Non-governmental organizations play an important role in habitat protection, yet few studies investigate their contribution to conservation investment. Here we examine…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
McIver, Weatherspoon
The National Fire and Fire Surrogate (FFS) study is described, from its conceptual stage in early 1996 to the completion of its short-term phase in May 2006. Comprising 12 sites, the FFS study is a comprehensive multidisciplinary experiment designed to evaluate the economics and…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Côté, Tittler, Messier, Kneeshaw, Fall, Fortin
Forest management has been criticised in the last 20 years for its negative impact on the native species, structures and functions of the forest. Of many possible alternatives proposed to minimize these effects, the functional zoning (or TRIAD) approach is gaining popularity in…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Busby, Albers
Wildfire, like many natural hazards, affects large landscapes with many landowners and the risk individual owners face depends on both individual and collective protective actions. In this study, we develop a spatially explicit game theoretic model to examine the strategic…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Long, Smith, Roberts
We outline an approach for developing and comparing silvicultural alternatives. The approach has multiple advantages, including explicit links between goals, management approaches, and outcomes; efficient development of alternative means of accomplishing the goals; and effective…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Lindenmayer, Likens, Franklin
Large-scale natural disturbances are commonplace around the world. They can have profound effects on human infrastructure and populations, as well as substantially influencing key ecological processes, shaping landscapes, and affecting many species. Major natural disturbances…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kochi, Donovan, Champ, Loomis
The economic costs of adverse health effects associated with exposure to wildfire smoke should be given serious consideration in determining the optimal wildfire management policy. Unfortunately, the literature in this research area is thin. In an effort to better understand the…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Mackie
During late 1982 and early 1983 wild fires swept through more than 3.5 Mha in the lowlands of East Kalimantan, Indonesia. The immediate causes of the conflagration were a combination of severe drought, destructive logging practices, and slash and burn agriculture. Although the…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Flowers, Shinkle, Cain, Mills
'Estimates of the timber net value change and timber output change resulting from wildfre were calculated for 9828 situation-specific fire and management conditions in the northern Rocky Mountains. After slight aggregation across the less sensitive situation parameters,…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Smith
'Considering that most of us in the fire business are involved in management of at least some public land and that, regardless of land status, many of our actions or inactions are subject to public view and often public criticism, an awareness of the political scene, what it…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Chambers
[no description entered]
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Kolden, Brown
Climate-wildfire relationships have been widely addressed by the scientific community over the last two decades; however, the role of climate in managed fire in the US (i.e. prescribed fire and wildland fire use) has not yet been addressed. We hypothesised that if climate is an…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Jones, Loeffler, Butler, Chung, Hummel
The emissions from delivering and burning forest treatment residue biomass in a boiler for thermal energy were compared with onsite disposal by pile-burning and using fossil fuels for the equivalent energy. Using biomass for thermal energy reduced carbon dioxide emissions on…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Rasker
Fighting wildfires costs U.S. taxpayers $3 billion annually, more than twice what it cost a decade ago. Unfortunately, this expense is almost certain to continue to grow, and-unless action is taken-firefighting costs could at least double again in the next 15 years because of…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Loomis, González-Cabán
The need for monetary benefits of protecting spotted owl old-growth forest habitat from fire in the early 1990s was the catalyst for application of nonmarket valuation techniques to fire management within the US Forest Service. Two large-scale general public surveys successfully…
Year: 2010
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES, TTRS
Alden, Zasada
Lodgepole pine, Pinus contorta Dougl. is the most widely distributed conifer in North America. Cones of northern populations of the interior variety latifolia are highly serotinous and retain vigorous seed for more than 50 years. Average annual cone production is relatively…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: TTRS
Provides information on fire management policy, programs, and issues in parks, wildernesses, and other natural areas. In more than 100 papers, poster papers, and workshop summaries, both researchers and managers explore basic wilderness management philosophies, explain current…
Year: 1985
Type: Document
Source: FRAMES
Huffman
A simple model that looks at the physical, ecological and social aspects of a fire system is presented and applied to forests in the western U.S. and the highlands of southern Mexico. The model can be used to clarify linkages among system drivers and to identify vulnerabilities…
Year: 2010
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES
Schmoll
The 2009 Nenana Ridge Prescribed Burn proved to be a successful but complex operational and logistical accomplishment. Lessons learned from the fire management perspective include effectiveness of the treatments, specifications for future fuel treatments, operational…
Year: 2010
Type: Media
Source: FRAMES